Updated February 2025
Camel Press is the genre imprint of Epicenter Press. Camel Press publishes genre work, focusing primarily on mystery, including the following sub-genres: suspense, cozy mystery, mystery thrillers, and romantic suspense. They also publish romance, both contemporary and historical and will consider general fiction, historical fiction and westerns, particularly if the author has a strong promotional plan.
Their books are distributed by Ingram, which isn’t ideal. Though, they also work with a variety of book wholesalers, which is helpful.
They’ve been around for over twenty years and most of the books they publish seem to receive positive reviews and sell a fair number of books on Amazon.
The website is geared towards readers, not writers. The book covers are hit or miss, but genre appropriate.
They have a very poorly updated site. According to their coming soon page, the newest book was released in 2023, but that is very much not the case. While the first book on their main landing page at the time of this update, was published decades ago, other books on this page were published with the month.
They haven’t been active on FB since 2018, but still share a link to that page.
They have detailed and thoughtful submission guidelines. Please read and follow them carefully. They are open to submissions from established authors who have had books fall out of print, as long as these books are not available online. They are not interested in reprints under any other circumstance.
They ask that you submit the first fifty consecutive pages of your novel, a biography, and a synopsis, as well as a strong promotional plan.
Their PDF outlining submission guidelines is here.
To learn more or to submit, go here.
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